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Pew president and CEO Rebecca Rimel shares her thoughts on the value of non-partisanship and civil dialogue. Plus, two veteran lawmakers reach across the aisle and discuss what is needed to find middle ground today.

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Fossil fuels will be banned from California’s electricity generation by 2045 under legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday, the latest in a series of ambitious goals set by the state to combat the effects of climate change.

In a further sign of the sprawling nature of the Justice Department’s effort to collect voting records in North Carolina, prosecutors demanded eight years of information from the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles, according to a copy of the subpoena obtained by The New York Times.

With Lyft and Uber now a popular transportation option for Las Vegas visitors, especially on the Strip, revenue from the Regional Transportation Commission’s bus routes along Las Vegas Boulevard has dipped, according to officials in southern Nevada.

New Jersey's top prosecutor is creating a new team in his office to target a wide swath of government wrongdoing, from bribe-pocketing public officials to abusive police officers and wrongful convictions.

Oil and gas leases on federal lands in southeastern New Mexico netted nearly a billion dollars this month, more than triple the amount bid on all such leases in 2017. The state stands to collect half the money from the unprecedented auction proceeds.